A "racially inhospitable environment" at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport's fire department led to the unlawful termination of a black deputy fire chief earlier this year, a state judge has ruled — and his firing must now be reversed.

Before he was a lawyer, Anthony Ashton was a high school guidance counselor and a middle school teacher before that.
Those experiences shaped skills he would need in a second career: the ability to convey thoughts to an audience and to listen...

NEWPORT NEWS — The losses keep coming, most by margins of greater than 50 points. But when you're the head coach of a winless basketball team whose character and perseverance far outweigh its talent level, you stress the small victories.
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Robert Shipley Auerbach, one of the founding members of the Maryland Green Party and the party's three-time nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives, died Dec. 12 from injuries suffered in a hit-and-run accident that evening in Greenbelt. He was 92....

The Philadelphia Wings of the National Lacrosse League today acquired former Johns Hopkins All-American Paul Rabil from the Rochester Knighthawks as part of a blockbuster six-player trade that sends Wings forward Dan Dawson and defenseman Paul Dawson to...

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The University of the District of Columbia has announced the hiring of Scott Urick as its first-ever men's lacrosse coach. Urick, the son of longtime Georgetown men's coach Dave Urick, comes to the university after 11 years as an assistant coach at Georgetown, where he helped lead the Hoyas to six NCAA quarterfinal appearances. The Firebirds will compete in the East Coast Conference beginning in the 2014 season.
"Scott Urick is an outstanding leader for the first men's lacrosse program at the...

Prince George's County Del. Tiffany Alston, who was to be sentenced next month after a conviction for stealing $800 from the General Assembly to pay the salary of an employee at her private law office, is expected to enter a plea next week in a second criminal case — and an end to the legal drama is likely to push the Bowie Democrat from her seat in the Legislature.
Both Alston's lawyer, J. Wyndal Gordon, and Maryland State Prosecutor Emmet C. Davitt declined to say more Thursday than that the...

Tiffany Alston, a freshman delegate from Prince George's County, was convicted Tuesday morning of stealing $800 in General Assembly funds to pay an employee of her law firm.
If the guilty verdicts on counts of misdemeanor theft and misconduct in office survive her expected challenges, the Bowie Democrat could lose her seat in the Maryland legislature.
Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Paul F. Harris Jr. postponed sentencing until after a trial, scheduled for October, on separate charges that Alston...

Virginia and Virginia Tech both figure to start top-shelf senior point guards next basketball season. The Cavaliers’ Jontel Evans is the ACC’s best returning on-the-ball defender, and the Hokies’ Erick Green is the conference’s No. 4 returning scorer.
Question is, who will take over those positions for the 2013-14 season?
At least one prospect rates high on both schools’ wish list: Rice transfer Dylan Ennis.
A 6-foot-2 graduate of Lake Forest Academy in suburban Chicago,...

Dennis Francis Hasson, a retired Naval Academy professor, died Tuesday of emphysema and congestive heart failure at his Severna Park home.
He was 77.
The son of a stationary engineer and a homemaker, Dr. Hasson was raised in Hamilton. After graduating in 1952 from Polytechnic Institute, he earned a bachelor's degree in 1955 in mechanical engineering from the Johns Hopkins University.
He earned a master's degree in 1958 in aerospace engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University....

Norma Holloway Johnson, a trailblazing former chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., who gained national prominence when she oversaw the grand jury investigation into President Clinton's relationship with intern Monica Lewinsky, has died. She was 79.
Johnson died Sunday at her brother's home in Lake Charles, La., according to a court statement. The cause was not given.
Johnson was the first black woman to be appointed to the federal bench in Washington and she is the only woman ever...